It is becoming increasingly common for laboratories to allow the rehoming of dogs when they are no longer needed. There research, however, comparing characteristics from acquired more traditional sources pets. This study used Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ) compare emotional behavioural 100 former laboratory Beagles who were rehomed a convenience sample 244 pet ...

BACKGROUND There is few data evaluating the prevalence and influence of adverse psychological characteristics on the prognosis of individuals submitted to percutaneous coronary interventions. No study has addressed this issue in Brazil. OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, psychological stress, and Type D personality and its association with cardiovascular events in...

The study investigated the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship of 829 college students in China by questionnaire. The psychological characteristics include five aspects: entrepreneurial capacity, entrepreneurial belief, entrepreneurial consciousness, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial determination. In the five factors, the entrepreneurial consciousness of college stu...

Our current study investigated how workplace social capital (WSC) mediates and moderates the associations between adverse work characteristics and psychological distress among Japanese workers. We collected cross-sectional data (N=9,350) from a baseline survey of an occupational Japanese cohort study. We focused on individual WSC and considered job demands/control, effort/reward, and two types ...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to review how personality characteristics contribute to the onset, maintenance or modulation of fibromyalgia. METHOD The databases Medline and PsychINFO were examined from 1967 to 2012 to identify studies that investigated associations between fibromyalgia and personality. Search terms included fibromyalgia and personality, trait psychology, characteristics and individual ...

People are exposed to persuasive communication across many different contexts: Governments, companies, and political parties use persuasive appeals to encourage people to eat healthier, purchase a particular product, or vote for a specific candidate. Laboratory studies show that such persuasive appeals are more effective in influencing behavior when they are tailored to individuals' unique psyc...